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National Population and Housing Census, 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Argentina, 1980
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ARG_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Argentine National institute of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Toilet (AR1980A_BATHRM)

Data file: ARG1980_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 197
End: 197
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">B. Dwelling</span></p>

<p>9. Sanitary service
Categories
Value Category
1 With discharge and drainage to a public system
2 With discharge and other system of drainage
3 Without flush water (latrine, etc )
4 Does not have toilet
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h1">B. Dwelling</span></p>

<p>It is any housing fixed or mobile that has been built or adapted for housing persons. A house, apartment, trailer, tenant room, shack, hospital, and a room are all considered dwellings.</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="AR80A044 AR80A045"><span class="em">9. Toilet Facilities</span><br /><br /><span class="em">a) Toilet.</span><br />With drainage of water, means that the elimination of residue is done through water channeled under pressure.<br /><br />You will indicate if it drained to a public system, with other drainage systems; without drainage, or if there is no toilet.<br /><br />[The instructions refer to a graphic of the census form.]<br /><br /><span class="em">b) Shower or bath.</span><br />You will point out its existence or not and the availability of hot and cold water, cold only or the lack of facilities.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of the household's lavatory.
Universe
Argentina 1980: Private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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